After his retirement in April, Chur Bishop Vitus Huonder, 76, Switzerland, will reside in the boarding-school Institut Sancta Maria in Wangs, a village 30 km north of Chur, in Saint Gallen diocese.
The school belongs to the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX). Pope Francis supports the move which Hounder announced months ago in a letter to a selected group of priests.
Huonder ran Chur diocese for almost twelve years. He has been a typical "Conservative" who occasionally made "Conservative" statements but otherwise ran a radical-liberal diocese, promoting anti-Catholic priests to leading positions while relegating good priests to fringe parishes.
During his time, about 15 young and younger priests, all belonging to the Catholic wing, left his diocese.
When a liberal parish-priest blessed in 2015 a gay pseudo-marriage, Huonder did not touch him. A retired priest who had publicly declared that he was living in concubinage with a woman, was allowed to celebrate his priestly jubilee …More